Electoral bonds scheme | Modi government trying to use SBI to bulldoze Supreme Court judgment, says Mallikarjun Kharge
The Hindu
The Congress on March 5 attacked the Centre over the State Bank of India (SBI) moving the Supreme Court to seek more time to disclose electoral bond details, alleging that the Modi government is using the largest bank of the country as a shield to hide its “dubious dealings”.
The Congress on March 5 attacked the Centre over the State Bank of India (SBI) moving the Supreme Court to seek more time to disclose electoral bond details, alleging that the Modi government is using the largest bank of the country as a shield to hide its "dubious dealings".
The SBI on March 4 moved the Supreme Court seeking an extension till June 30 to disclose details of each electoral bond encashed by political parties. In its verdict last month, the top court directed the SBI to furnish the details to the poll panel by March 6.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said the Congress' position on the electoral bonds scheme is that it is "opaque, undemocratic and destroyed the level playing field".
"Modi government is using the largest bank of our country as a shield to hide its dubious dealings through Electoral Bonds," he said.
“No less than the Supreme Court of India had struck down Modi government’s “black money conversion scheme” of Electoral Bonds, holding it “unconstitutional”, “violative of RTI” and “illegal” and asking SBI to furnish donor details by March 6,” he said.
“But the BJP wants it to be done after Lok Sabha elections. The tenure of this Lok Sabha will end on 16th June and SBI wants to share the data by 30th June,” Mr. Kharge said. “The BJP is the main beneficiary of this “fraudulent scheme”, he alleged.
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